Linda is the morning news anchor and features reporter for KIRO Radio. This is her local news blog, with an emphasis on social media, technology, Northwest companies, education, parenting, and anything else that grabs her attention.

Although they're more subtle about it than girls, teen boys have complicated emotional lives. They're trying to pass locker-room tests and navigate a school-yard hierarchy that most parents don't understand.

A man who appeared to provide sign language interpretation on stage for Nelson Mandela's memorial service, attended by scores of heads of state, was a "fake," the national director of the Deaf Federation of South Africa said on Wednesday.

A video secretly made inside an Amazon.com facility in the UK leads an expert on workplace stress to the conclusion that doing some jobs at Amazon could cause an "increased risk of mental illness and physical illness."